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The Small Business Owner's Guide to a Good Night's Sleep: Preventing and Solving Chronic and Costly Problems (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: smoldering crises, business crises, adverse times, Blue Mountain, United States, New Coke (more...)

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"Offers solutions to your worst problems. This superb book will help you sleep peacefully through the darkest and stormiest night." -- Jay Conrad Levinson, Author of the best-selling Guerrilla Marketing book series

"This book is uniquely designed to address the kinds of crises that typically strike these companies." -- Larry L. Smith, President, Institute for Crisis Management

"This book will serve as a guide for small-business owners in overcoming all the things we wish would not happen." -- Barbara G. Stanbridge, President, National Association of Women Business Owners

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Proven fixes for scores of small business emergencies. Finally, owners of small businesses have a practical book that can prepare them for the most common and destructive crises they face. Even problems that would be "small" to a larger company can be disastrous for a small one. Entrepreneurs know this, but many balk at the prospect of crisis planning because it seems endless and overwhelming. Debra Traverso shows business owners how to best use their limited time and resources to address the most important potential threats to their businesses. By laying basic groundwork for crisis planning and zeroing in on the most likely, most damaging problems, owners can stay a step ahead of the disruptions that plague their peers. This book covers preventive measures for bullet-proofing a business and explains what to do if a crisis has already struck. It offers a wealth of information in an easy-to-browse format, including proven checklists, examples, case studies, and resources. A "Vulnerability Identification Form" helps the business owner conduct the kind of risk analysis that a large company would typically perform. Best of all, these strategies are ready to implement immediately, because they don't revolve around 500-page contingency plans and big emergency response teams.

Smart advice on:
• Loss of a major contract or other large, unexpected drop in business
• Sudden loss of a key employee who has important skills and knowledge
• Shortage of cash to pay employees or suppliers
• A product that harms people and has already been shipped
• Fires, thefts (including intellectual property), floods, accidents, and computer network breakdowns
• Internet problems
• How to deal with the press if the business suffers a newsworthy setback
• Unexpected problems with employees

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Product Details

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Bloomberg Press (August 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576600475
ISBN-13: 978-1576600474
Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,239,853 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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BUSINESS CRISES-THEY'RE IN THE NEWS EVERY DAY. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
smoldering crises, business crises, adverse times, departing employees

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Blue Mountain, United States, New Coke, Pet Rock, Small Business Administration

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This book cites 8 books:

Outsmarting Goliath: How to Achieve Equal Footing with Companies That Are Bigger, Richer, Older, and Better Known by Debra Koontz Traverso in Front Matter, and Back Matter
To Think by Frank Smith on page 98
Clicking Through: A Survival Guide for Bringing Your Company Online by Jonathan Ezor in Front Matter
Divine Intuition by Lynn A. Robinson on page 5
The E-Business Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to E-Commerce and Beyond by Dayle M Smith Ph.D. in Front Matter

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!, August 22, 2001

By	Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Debra Koontz Traverso is out to save your business. Her book lives up to its billing as the first practical guide for small business owners who want to know how to manage a crisis like the big guys, or even better. Traverso tells you how to prepare for a crisis, prevent a crisis and manage a crisis if one happens. She's written a thorough manual imbued with her understanding of the mindset and circumstances affecting small business owners. Traverso's well-written book is jam-packed with insights, valuable lists, ideas and examples, and it never skims the surface of an issue. Come wind, sleet, hail or dark of night, if you are in a small business, we [...] recommend this essential book. Even if you work for a large organization, this book might be worth your time, since many big companies are strictly small-time when it comes to planning ahead.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A small business owner's helper, May 8, 2006

By	Jeff Lippincott "www.Jlippin.com" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

At first glance I thought this book was written for managers who regularly put out fires. But when I started studying the book I quickly learned that the book identifies a myriad of typical "fires" that can sprout up at work and describes how a good manager/leader can PLAN so the likelihood of such fires ever starting is minimal. I highly recommend this book for any entrepreneur in business to use when strategically managing his or her business rather than managing with a fire extinguisher.

The book is split into 3 sections:

1. Principles of planning for a small business
2. Getting your house in order
3. When the crisis moves from in-house to the public

My favorite chapter was #3 (Avoid the Most Common Management Missteps), but chapters 2, 4 & 5 were very good ones as well concerning self-audit, employees, and computers. If you are a small business owner, then do yourself a favor and read this book. I suspect it will inform you of a few things you should do at your work that will improve your way of doing things.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice for small business owners/managers, October 27, 2001

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I got more advice from this book's chapter on dealing with employees than I
have in the last three books I've read on employee relations, put together. I
especially appreciated the information on how to involve families of
employees to, in turn, motivate the employees even more.. . . and all while
keeping the families out of the way. I'm not sure I agree with Traverso that
a small business can survive and even thrive through a recession, but her
tips seem to make great sense, so I'm going to try them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written, precise, and practical
I just finished reading "The Small Business Owner's Guide to a Good Night's
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice for small business owners/managers
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, clever, and advice-packed!
I was a little concerned before I read the book. . .afraid it would be one of
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